Crossword for Tue, 17/Oct/2006

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Across
1: With diverse amendments? (7)

4: To leaf I turn, becoming leafy (7)

6: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

9: The age of the equal rights amendment (3)

11: Consumed and digested tea (3)

13: This would make me a lord (7)

14: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

16: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

17: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

18: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

20: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)

21: Throw out faulty nib (3)

22: The time before the first woman (3)

23: Somehow it is clear and practical (9)

25: Having red nose, turned back (7)

26: Medicine was our connection, we hear (7)

Down
1: Say again 'Others had food' (7)

2: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

3: Period email feature (3)

4: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

5: Coats need woven yarns (9)

7: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

8: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

10: Direct object (3)

12: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

15: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

19: They can't reproduce sounds like an operating system (7)

20: Nothing we have to pay (3)

21: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

24: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)





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